Guy Gavriel Kay's newest fantasy novel, Ysabel, a coming-of-age story, follows the adventures of 15-year-old Ned Marriner taking time off from school to visit Provence with his famous photographer father. Ned's mother, Meghan, works in Darfur with Doctors Without Borders. Both Ned and his father worry for her safety. Then his father's assistant turns up missing and Ned himself is threatened.

Book Description: Saint-Sauveur Cathedral of Aix-en-Provence is an ancient structure of many secrets-a perfect monument to fill the lens of a celebrated photographer, and a perfect place for the photographer's son, Ned Marriner, to lose himself while his father works.

But the cathedral isn't the empty edifice it appears to be. Its history is very much alive in the present day-and it's calling out to Ned...

(Source: Roc)